I struggle to imagine what you would consider hypocritical if not this. I understand your argument about exceptionalism, etc. But don’t all hypocrites think they are special? It’s no defense against the charge of hypocrisy to think so.

The fact that this time it’s been gussied up into a whole “foreign policy doctrine” really doesn’t change anything. In the end, it’s like you’re saying they aren’t hypocrites because they know they’re behaving hypocritically and they’re doing it on purpose.

Again: if that’s not hypocrisy, what is?